When we imagine the search for life on Mars, we often picture high-tech rovers scanning dusty landscapes or orbiters ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

Madhusudhan et al. just reported ~3 sigma detection of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) in the atmosphere ...

A new hypothesis from SETI Institute scientist Dr. Janice Bishop and Dr. Melissa Lane from Fibernetics in Pennsylvania could ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up empty-handed? A recent ...

We all know Mars is called “The Red Planet,” but have you ever stopped to wonder—why is it red? The classic joke explanation ...

SETI Institute In the News This month at the SETI Institute brought exciting news about research and innovations that expand ...

In 1974, the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space was made from Puerto Rico. The broadcast formed part of the ceremonies held to mark a major upgrade to the Arecibo Radio ...

The question “are we alone in the universe?” has fascinated people for centuries. In 1959 two Cornell University physicists described how we might answer that question through interstellar ...

March 31, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published online in the journal Meteoritics & ...